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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... service to get help. I was clearly not alone, as there is always an army of ... ! 8. The absolute best memory of airplane food is flying from Taipei to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  won't be embarassed posting pictures of it on the Internet), this is ... of them, so I'll fill you in on the details later. Right now, I want to ... recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  very first student representative to the CAP [Committee on Academic ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The ... [/annotation], which is a full-semester version of 6.0001. However, I stayed in 6 ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  way out, I beheld a wonder of creative marketing. The sign is to be read ... blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened! Politics is happening! Blogging is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  THE PAST 15 YEARS. Honestly, what is there to catch up on? The catching ... admired were fired or placed on leave for various forms of trainee abuse. 3 ... a hard-ass (which, to a certain extent, is true). It took me a long

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  experience the technology, hands on. Our goal is to make genetic engineering ... algae cells that convert carbon dioxide to fuel, biocementation bacteria ... material -- sets out not simply to educate but to also be part of the early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  is its physical character. We’re used to thinking of wealthy ... Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more ... were selected to "become the next generation of tech visionaries ... was one of only two women to win (and the only American woman); the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  minutes, which is what I used for my proof of time for Disney. Next was a ... right around mile 18 or 19, which are the worst miles EVER.  Mile 19 is ... beaten down to is actually another HOUR of running.  Running through

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  least control who, or what, I am. After all, food is what we choose to ... Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as ... inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  (which is often). I should really cut down on the amount of bacon I eat ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of ... bacterial colonies makes me want to shoot myself in the face. (Speaking of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  or synthesis, basically everything featured on this blog. which is also ... glad that I had the chance to live off-campus, which is standard at some ... to that, I spent a decent amount of time on teaching and outreach work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and ... scent.~ My friend is a big fan of perfumes and she's been taking me to ... or instructions on how to proceed next, just waved us off the plane and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  , “This is the time of your life where your only responsibility is to learn ... … actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  to leave a part of myself behind me, and move onto what's next. Is the ... . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022